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Proteomic and Physiological Responses of Leopard Sharks (Triakis Semifasciata) to Salinity Change 210 The Journal of Experimental Biology 213, 210-224 Published by The Company of Biologists 2010 doi:10.1242/jeb.031781 Proteomic and physiological responses of leopard sharks (Triakis semifasciata) to salinity change W. W. Dowd1,2,*, B. N. Harris3, J. J. Cech, Jr2 and D. Kültz1 1Physiological Genomics Group, Department of Animal Science and 2Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA and 3Department of Biology, 3386 Spieth Hall, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA *Author for correspondence at present address: Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA ([email protected]) Accepted 14 September 2009 SUMMARY Partially euryhaline elasmobranchs may tolerate physiologically challenging, variable salinity conditions in estuaries as a trade- off to reduce predation risk or to gain access to abundant food resources. To further understand these trade-offs and to evaluate the underlying mechanisms, we examined the responses of juvenile leopard sharks to salinity changes using a suite of measurements at multiple organizational levels: gill and rectal gland proteomes (using 2-D gel electrophoresis and tandem mass spectrometry), tissue biochemistry (Na+/K+-ATPase, caspase 3/7 and chymotrypsin-like proteasome activities), organismal physiology (hematology, plasma composition, muscle moisture) and individual behavior. Our proteomics results reveal coordinated molecular responses to low salinity – several of which are common to both rectal gland and gill – including changes in amino acid and inositol (i.e. osmolyte) metabolism, energy metabolism and proteins related to transcription, translation and protein degradation. Overall, leopard sharks employ a strategy of maintaining plasma urea, ion concentrations and Na+/K+-ATPase activities in the short-term, possibly because they rarely spend extended periods in low salinity conditions in the wild, but the sharks osmoconform to the surrounding conditions by 3 weeks. We found no evidence of apoptosis at the time points tested, while both tissues exhibited proteomic changes related to the cytoskeleton, suggesting that leopard sharks remodel existing osmoregulatory epithelial cells and activate physiological acclimatory responses to solve the problems posed by low salinity exposure. The behavioral measurements reveal increased activity in the lowest salinity in the short-term, while activity decreased in the lowest salinity in the long-term. Our data suggest that physiological/behavioral trade-offs are involved in using estuarine habitats, and pathway modeling implicates tumor necrosis factor (TNF) as a key node of the elasmobranch hyposmotic response network. Supplementary material available online at http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/full/213/2/210/DC1 Key words: elasmobranch, osmoregulation, urea, Na+/K+-ATPase, focal animal sampling, proteomics, MALDI-TOF-TOF mass spectrometry, pathway analysis, tumor necrosis factor. INTRODUCTION need to determine whether (i) the animals are simply tolerating Salinity change is an important environmental challenge faced by challenging salinity conditions in exchange for greater net benefits, estuarine and coastal fishes, which have evolved a suite of (ii) they are capable of coping physiologically with those conditions, morphological, physiological and behavioral characteristics for or (iii) they employ other options such as behavioral avoidance (e.g. coping with such environmental variability. Species of the subclass moving away from low/changing salinity areas of the estuary) or Elasmobranchii (the sharks, skates and rays) commonly utilize behavioral modulation (e.g. reducing activity to conserve energy coastal and estuarine habitats, particularly at certain times of the for physiological acclimation when avoidance is not possible) to year or specific life-history stages (e.g. juvenile nursery areas) compensate for physiological ‘shortcomings’. Such diverse (Heupel et al., 2007; Springer, 1967). However, with relatively few possibilities highlight the need for an integrative approach to exceptions, most elasmobranchs exhibit low tolerance of salinity answer questions in ecological physiology, incorporating techniques change – the majority being stenohaline (some in freshwater) or that provide insight into responses at different levels of biological partially euryhaline. From a physiological perspective, partially organization (i.e. from individual cells to whole organisms). euryhaline elasmobranchs entering estuaries with variable salinity At the molecular level, we have previously applied 2-D gel may incur significant costs due to their urea-based osmoregulatory electrophoresis and mass spectrometry-based proteomics techniques strategy, which creates slightly hyperosmotic or isosmotic conditions to understand the adjustments made in fish tissues to physiological within the shark relative to full-strength seawater (SW) (Evans et challenges (Dowd et al., 2008; Kültz et al., 2007). Proteins are the al., 2004; Hazon et al., 2003). From an ecological perspective, primary executioners of cell functions, and the proteome integrates elasmobranchs in estuaries, particularly juveniles, may enjoy the changes in gene expression, mRNA stability and protein post- benefits of abundant food resources as well as spatial refuge from translational modification and turnover in response to environmental larger predators found in the oceans (Branstetter, 1990; Heupel et change (Kültz, 2005). Gel-based proteomics, like cDNA microarrays al., 2007). In order to better understand the potential trade-offs and other ‘omics’ approaches, is a powerful tool for generating new involved in using such dynamic, potentially stressful habitats, we mechanistic hypotheses that then can be tested by other means (e.g. THE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY Leopard shark proteomics 211 Matey et al., 2009). However, very few studies have attempted to for 2–62 days prior to the beginning of an experiment (2005: integrate proteomics with other levels of biological organization in 33.4±0.1 p.p.t., 13.5±0.2°C, 7.31±0.13 mg l–1 dissolved oxygen; ecologically relevant scenarios for ‘non-model’ organisms. Due to 2007: 33.8±0.1 p.p.t., 10.7±0.2°C, 7.69±0.07 mg l–1). Sharks were the unique osmoregulatory strategy of elasmobranchs and their basal fed ad libitum rations of squid (Loligo spp.) and/or Bay ghost shrimp position in the vertebrate phylogeny, unraveling the key players in (Neotrypaea californiensis Dana 1854) in the holding tank. their osmoregulatory response mechanisms will provide both Salinity experiments were conducted in flow-through evolutionary and ecological insights. 1600–1900 liter fiberglass tanks by varying the ratio of inflowing In this study, we exposed leopard sharks (Triakis semifasciata seawater (SW; ~34 p.p.t.) to freshwater (FW; 2.9 p.p.t.) to each tank Girard 1855) to salinity changes representative of those likely to be using two in-line flow meters. The water turnover rate in the encountered in estuaries in order to assess their responses from the experimental tanks was 32–45% per hour (h). Salinity was reduced molecular level through to the organismal level. Sharks provide gradually from full-strength SW (experiments 1 and 2 over 18 h; abundant tissue for proteomics and biochemistry, and they are experiment 3 over 11 h) in order to mimic rates of salinity change amenable to complementary techniques at the organismal level. likely to be experienced by sharks in the wild. To avoid stress from Leopard sharks inhabit California estuaries at all times of year, where aerial exposure, all movements between tanks were performed using they can experience salinity changes on several time scales (Fig. 1), a watertight sling. All procedures were approved by the University including stochastic changes due to extreme rainfall events or of California, Davis IACUC (Protocols 11745 and 12746). anthropogenic activities. These salinity changes can be fairly rapid, leading to shifts of as much as 18 parts per thousand (p.p.t.) in just Experiment 1: Short-term (48 h) osmoregulatory responses to 12 h. Leopard sharks have been captured in San Francisco Bay at salinity change salinities as low as 14 p.p.t. but they are more commonly encountered Sharks in this experiment were subjected to short-term (~48 h) at salinities greater than 18 p.p.t. (J. Diesel, Marine Science Institute, exposures to one of three salinity treatments: 33.3 p.p.t. (100% SW personal communication). These data suggest a lower physiological control), 27.6 p.p.t. (80% SW) or 20.7 p.p.t. (60% SW) [N18; tolerance threshold (i.e. leopard sharks are partially euryhaline) 1245±101 g; 68.5±2.1 cm total length (TL)]. Prior to the experiment, and/or behavioral avoidance of lower salinities in the wild. 12 of these sharks were anesthetized in FinquelTM MS-222 (Argent Because responses to environmental challenges are likely to vary Chemical Laboratories, Redmond, WA, USA) and cannulated via among tissues, depending on both their exposure to surrounding the caudal artery with a 1.5 m length of PE50 tubing using a 17G conditions and their functions, we assessed salinity-dependent Touhy needle to allow repeated blood sampling during the changes in both the rectal gland and gill proteomes. The mechanisms experiment (Hopkins and Cech, 1995). The cannula was filled with of salt secretion in the elasmobranch rectal gland have been heparinized elasmobranch Ringer solution (Anderson et al., 2002). thoroughly
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